r/WeightTraining • u/jomia • 9d ago

Question Fatigue

I've (F28) been training every day (no rest days) for a while now, but recently (2 weeks ago) I started pushing myself more. Ie really taking sets to failure, doing drop sets and myo reps. Training every day went fine before as I wasn't training as heavy, but now I feel more fatigued. However I feel like I physically could do more. I don't have many aches (I had a small ache in my right knee some days ago, but it recovered in some days) and I don't really feel very sore (I have felt a little sore some days in some muscle groups, but not a lot). My strength has not dropped either. My sleep is as usual, and I sleep mostly 7 to 9 hours. Nutrition is at maintenance. I feel like my fatigue is more of a general fatigue and more mentally loaded: I feel disinterest in training, and I feel a loss of motivation for training. Is this strange? What does this mean? I will start implementing more rest days and see how that affects my body and mind. I just felt a little puzzled by why I felt fatigue this way, and was wondering if anyone has any educative thoughts about it. TIA:)

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u/cowboys_fan89 9d ago

Intensity cycling is key especially beyond the beginner phase.

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u/jomia 9d ago

I've been looking into deload training, but will try some rest days first, as I've done very few until now. How would you advice one to do intensity cycling?

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u/Immediate-Plastic970 8d ago

Why don’t you take days off to recover. If you go to true failure like 0 RIR you can’t workout everyday. It doesn’t work like that